Imperial Meridian by C A Bayly
This volume, in a series which deals with significant historical issues and aims to explain the current state of our knowledge in the area, discusses the history and development of British imperialism and the Muslim Empires in Asia and the world crisis from 1780 to 1830.'This is a rich and ambitious bookIts purpose is to put into focus developments throughout the world in the age of the French Revolution and the Napoleonic Wars and their aftermath. It offers a radically different interpretation from generally accepted theories about the history of the world for this period.'
The Times Literary Supplement
C.A. Bayly (1945-2015) was Vere Harmsworth Professor of History in the University of Cambridge and a fellow of St. Catharine's College, Cambridge, from 1970 until 2015, and a leader in the field of global history. He won the Wolfson History Prize for his distinguished contribution to History in 2004 and received a knighthood for his services to the profession in 2007. Among his other significant works are The Birth of the Modern World: Global Connections and Comparisons, 1780-1914 (Wiley, 2004); Forgotten Armies: The Fall of British Asia, 1941-1945 (2005) and Forgotten Wars: Freedom and Revolution in Southeast Asia (2007), both co-authored with T.N. Harper; and Recovering Liberties: Indian Thought in the Age of Liberalism Empire (2012). He was a fellow of the British Academy, the Royal Historical Society, the Royal Society of Literature, and the Academia Europaea.In 2016 he became the first posthumous recipient of the Toynbee Prize.
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| ISBN 13 | 9780582494381 |
| ISBN 10 | 0582494389 |
| Title | Imperial Meridian |
| Author | C A Bayly |
| Series | Studies In Modern History |
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| Binding Type | Paperback |
| Publisher | Taylor & Francis Ltd |
| Year published | 1989-06-05 |
| Number of pages | 312 |
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